On 01/02/14 17:48, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > Ok- that was unfair of me - > it is actually easy to do this with the align tool once one grasps one or > two concepts of its operation. Took me less than 2 minutes. > a) select the align tool on the toolbox. > b) click on one of your layers > c) Verify that alginement is related to "image" in the tool options > d) click on the left arrow and on the up arrow, in the upper halff of > the tool options dialog to have it positioned at the upper left corner > of the canvas > e) repeat b - d 3 more times for the other layers, replacing the arrow > buttons as desired
This would be great, but... I must be missing something; running 2.8.10 on fbsd. When I click on the alignment buttons, nothing happens, and they don't change appearance on mouse-down or mouse-up. I can't quite tell from the glyphs, but they look like they may be greyed out; at least they are overall a lot lighter than most of the toolbox glyphs; they look about like the bucket-fill tool. The "Offset" text box is active and allows changes, and the reset options does its thing. No error messages that I can see. Any ideas what would cause them to be inactive? All other tools seem to work. >> On 2 January 2014 21:38, Gary Aitken <g...@dreamchaser.org> wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Either I am blind or incompetent, maybe both... a hint would be much >>> appreciated: >>> >>> I wanted to set up a template for dealing with printing four images on a >>> sheet. >>> >>> I created an image the size of the sheet and then added four layers, each >>> of the >>> desired image size which needed to be positioned appropriately. >>> >>> When I went to position the images, I could not find any reasonable way >>> with the >>> move command or with any of the layer operations to position each layer >>> precisely. >>> By that I mean simply type in the coordinates of the upper left corner, or >>> move >>> with the mouse where I see a text version of the upper left coordinate of >>> the new >>> layer position as I move. >>> >>> If trying to position using the mouse, the lower left of the status line >>> shows >>> the position of the pointer itself, so that is useless in positioning the >>> layer >>> as a whole; and the numbers to the right of the per-cent size display show >>> how >>> much the layer has moved relative to its starting position, not the absolute >>> position of the upper left corner. (I'll grant that the latter is useful, >>> but >>> in this case one needs something else, particularly if a layer has been >>> moved >>> and needs to be repositioned to a fixed location.) >>> >>> The only way I could get what I wanted was to expand to 800%, and at that >>> magnification I could grab the upper left corner with the mouse so the mouse >>> position was itself the upper left corner position. >>> Surely there's a better way? >>> >>> Layer/Layer to Boundary Size... does not appear to work as advertised. The >>> offset appears >>> to be relative to the original size of the layer, not the original size of >>> the image. >>> The panner image is limited to the size of the layer, not the image. >>> When you first bring up the dialog, you are unable to reposition the layer >>> unless you change >>> the layer size to make the layer smaller. If you make the layer half the >>> size of its original >>> size and then click "Center", the offset is set to - 1/2 the size of the >>> original image, >>> not + 1/2, which seems bizarre. The layer is scaled properly, and ends up >>> where you >>> would expect (based on the center command given, but not based on the >>> offsets indicated), >>> but the values in the Offset boxes seem to have the wrong sign. It works by >>> moving the original layer relative to the desired new layer, rather than >>> position the new >>> layer size relative to the image. Which means you can't move the layer >>> relative to the image >>> if the layer is smaller than the image, and the graphic panner doesn't show >>> you the layer >>> position relative to the image as a whole. It is not at all intuitive and >>> is not useful >>> for quite a few common cases. >>> >>> Layer/Transform/Offset shifts the contents, but not the layer itself. >>> Which is what it >>> is supposed to do, so that's ok; it's just not usable for this operation. _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
